Original post is here: eklausmeier.goip.de
I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) on my new 2TB hard drive. I do not use the desktop variant of Ubuntu because I think it is too bloated. Rather I specifically install packages as needed. Below is a list of packages I install after the server edition.
jpilot
, of course, see my posts Possible Enhancements to J-Pilot, jpilot-dump + jpilot-merge, Syncing with J-Pilot via Bluetoothicewm
, see post A Praise for IceWM ("not getting in the user’s way")- [more_WP_Tag]
xinit
, for startingicewm
xterm
, probably the most important programp7zip-full
, zip file handlingindent
, a beautifier for C source code filesgcc
, of coursemake
git
expect
, see Linux commands: expect and kibitzvalgrind
, for identifying hard to find memory leakswhois
forwhois
andmkpasswd
lm-sensors
, for sensors which provides information on temperature and power consumption, see posts CUDA Performance, Newer GPUGRID Tasks Keep GPU Really Hot, Plotting Power Consumption of my Desktop PCalsa-base
, for sound, then usealsamixer
to unmutemplayer
, for viewing videos and hearing musicgeeqie
, for image viewing, also installs ImageMagick andzenity
sqlite3
, see post Clearing Cookie Junk in Google Chrome Web Browseraumix
, for setting audio volumexawtv
, for viewing televisionbluez
, Bluetooth handling,hciconfig
, etc., see post Syncing with J-Pilot via Bluetoothbluez-compat
, fordund
, see post Syncing with J-Pilot via Bluetoothmupdf
, a fast PDF viewer, asxpdf
seemed to be brokenx11-utils
bc
, arbitrary precision calculator, luckily got installed by defaultboinc-manager
, for Einstein@Home and GPUGrid, see my posts here and heremesa-utils
, forglxgears
for checking graphic card performanceperl-doc
, to read manuals on Perlx11-apps
, forxclock
,xeyes
,xcalc
, etc.xmaxima
, for formula manipulation, installs gnuplot as welloctave
as MATLAB clone, installs Java (openjdk-7-jre-headless) as welltexlive-latex-base
, for $\TeX$ and $\LaTeX$libgtkglext1-dev
, for Gtk and OpenGL, see my post OpenGL Program: Earth with Moon Rotating around Suninotify-tools
, see post inotify-tools: inotifywaityoutube-dl
, see Youtube video to mp3libreoffice
, so that I can read Word and Excel files, and occasionally write letters and reportsantiword
, so that I don't have to fire up LibreOffice all the time and can read the text part of a Word document, see Antiword: a free MS Word document readerzmap
, for scanning the entire internet, see Zmappoppler-utils
, forpdftotext
mutt
, The Mutt E-Mail Client
For some strange reasons Ubuntu 14.04 no longer provides xlock
(old package: xlockmore
). So I copied the binary from Ubuntu 12.04 to my private bin-directory. The "old" xlock
binary works flawlessly in 14.04.
I encrypted my new harddisk with LUKS and LVM, as indicated in a recent Phoronix article, The Performance Impact Of Linux Disk Encryption On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, written by Michael Larabel. The article in Phoronix clearly indicates that homedirectory encryption compared to full-disk encryption is a terrible performance hog. So I used full-disk encryption. I measured transfer rates from old disk to new disk of 75 MBytes/s to 120 MBytes/s, i.e., read unencrypted old disk and write to new encrypted disk. Generally the picture looks like this, according to the aforementioned article:
Why encrypt the hard-disk? I pay taxes, I pay GEZ (forced payment for television in Germany), I am forced to pay VG Wort for printers, I am forced to pay GEMA for USB sticks and hard-drives. And now I am even forced to sacrifice my valuable CPU resources, such that tax payed intelligence is not spying on me (the taxpayer). Because otherwise, as Glenn Greenwald puts it:
They [the government] completely abused their own terrorism law for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism: a potent reminder of how often governments lie when they claim that they need powers to stop "the terrorists", and how dangerous it is to vest unchecked power with political officials in its name.
See Glenn Greenwald: detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation. Is the government helping me finding and convicting the hit-and-run guys? No. My car was hit multiple times. They just want my money and spy on me. So, I am fed up.